{"id":19,"date":"2023-06-04T22:53:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T22:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeitschleife-verlag.com\/Verein\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:02:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zeitschleife-verlag.com\/Verein\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are a Graz-based arts organization dedicated primarily to presenting contemporary music productions in reinvigorated contexts. We understand music as being continuously reimagined and reinvigorated by its past, rejecting aesthetic constraints and prioritising quality of sound and experience.<\/em><\/strong> Therefore, we have curated projects focused on spatial exploration, passage of time, invention and re-invention of instruments, and looking at past musical practices to find new and interesting ways forward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Alyssa M. Aska<\/a>, President<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Alyssa is fascinated with the architecture of music, both spatially and temporally. She composes works which explore extremes in time and space, using rigid proportions to generate forms in acoustic works and exploring the unpredictable duration and lack of control in gamified works. This is closely tied to her compositional style, which is concerned with a delicate balance between elements of functional form and elements of pure aesthetic purpose. As much structure as possible, as many ornaments as necessary (and vice versa). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She studied composition in the United States with Robert Kyr, David Crumb, and Jeffrey Stolet, in Canada with Robert Pritchard, Keith Hamel, and David Eagle, and in Graz, Austria with Marko Ciciliani and Klaus Lang. Alyssa\u2019s work and research are performed worldwide at various concerts and festivals such as Wien Modern, Ars Electronica Linz, Forum Wallis, ICMC, EMS, Impuls, Darmstadt Summer Courses, Musikprotokoll, Tonraum21, ComposIt, Mirkofest Helsinki, Microtonal Festival Prague, and many others. She was selected for participation at many academies and workshops such as WasteLAnd Academy (2019), CrossROADS Festival (2019), Kalv Festival Academy (2020), and reMusik.org (2021). She was also selected for performance at the Gamified Audiovisual Performance and Performance Practice (Gappp) Symposium 2019. Alyssa is a founding member of the Graz facere collective, which presents every year concerts in various formats, and is a current member of the Graz collective Die Andere Saite. Her scores are published by Babel Scores and Verlag Zeitschleife.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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DDr. Martin Ritter<\/a>, Vice-President<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Martin Ritter studied composition in Canada and currently lives in Graz, Austria. He writes both electronic as well as instrumental works and is performed across Europe, North America, and Asia. As a composer he is interested in the spaces sounds emerge in\/from and the intersection of music, technology, and performance\/performance practice. In recent years he has started to explore microtonality as a conceptual space for his work. As a researcher he works with digital tools in order to analyze and understand electronic music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His music and research are featured regularly at conferences and festivals such as Wien Modern, MikroFest Helsinki, ICMC, NIME, EMS, Audio Mostly, eContact!, Impuls, Darmstadt, ComposIt, MusCan, TENOR, Ars Electronica. He has received scholarships like the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, the University of Calgary Technologies International Inc. Fellowship Scholarship, Alberta Innovates – Technologies Futures Scholarship, the Joseph and Melitta KANDLER Scholarship for Advanced Music Study. He founded, co-founded, or is on the board of several arts organizations such as Zeitschleife, Die Andere Saite, OEGZM, Graz Orchestra of Noise and Distortion. He currently holds the National Composition Scholarship of Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He holds a DMA in composition from the University of British Columbia where his primary teachers were Drs. Keith Hamel and Robert Pritchard, and a PhD in Computational Media Design from the University of Calgary where he studied with Drs. Friedemann Sallis and Jeffrey E. Boyd. At the Universit\u00e4t f\u00fcr Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz he studied with Klaus Lang and Dr. Marko Ciciliani.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mag. Pablo Abelardo Mari\u00f1a Montalvo<\/a>, Scribe<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Pablo Mari\u00f1a is a Mexican composer of acoustic and computer music living and working in Graz, Austria. His focus lies in live electronics, structural approaches, and iterative processes. In his work, the composer has been searching for methods of creating pieces of live electronics that unfold sonic homogeneity between processed and non-processed sound materials. In his latest work, Pablo has also been exploring spatialization configurations and cross-perceptual phenomena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In addition to concert music, Pablo Mari\u00f1a is also creating sound installations, collaborates with video artists, and takes part in composers\u00b4 collectives GONaD and facere. In conjunction with his creative practice, Pablo Mari\u00f1a is developing electronic and electroacoustic music performance and composition tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pablo Mari\u00f1a graduated from Composition and Music Theory studies at the Center for Music Studies and Research (CIEM) in Mexico City and from Computer Music at the Institute of Electronic Music (IEM) in Graz. Currently he is enrolled in a Master\u00b4s Degree in Classical Composition studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sepehr Karbassian<\/a>, Treasurer<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Sepehr Karbassian is an Iranian composer and performer based in Austria. His music has been presented in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Serbia, Austria and Iran. His work is shaped by a wide range of influences, including Persian music, early music, rock music, as well as artistic movements such as Impressionism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other art forms like painting and literature also influenced him, particularly the writings of the Persian poets Forough Farrokhzad and Mehdi Akhavan-Sales. He is fascinated by the concepts of fluid intonation, inharmonicity and emergent sounds, as well as the creation of means of communication and interaction between various sound sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He has studied composition and computer music at the university of music and performing arts Graz in Austria and had the opportunity to learn from composers such as Klaus Lang, Gerhard Eckel, Annesley Black, Marko Ciciliani, Pascale Criton, Timothy McCormack, Christian Ofenbauer, Dimitri Papageorgiou, Nadir Vassena, Dmitri Kourliandski, Francesca Verunelli and Joachim Heintz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sepehr has been selected for Austrian state grants in 2024 and 2026. He is a board member of the Zeitschleife cultural society in Austria. His additional activities include scoring for films, live performance, composing for theatre, as well as musicological research in history and aesthetics.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Forrest Moody<\/a>,<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Forrest Moody is a composer and pianist who lives between Graz and western Sweden. In his compositions, he works with memory as an autonomous musical entity, exploring its poetic impact through harmony, rhythmic figures, and time structure. Originally from rural Alabama, he studied piano in New York and composition in Graz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

his works have thus far been performed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Norway, Finland, Croatia, and the US. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Soyeon Park<\/a>,<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Soyeon Park is a composer based in Graz, Austria. Her music is often described as vibrant and refined yet playful, shaped by a continuous exploration of sound that results in a distinctive musical language crossing genre boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She studied composition at Ewha Womans University in South Korea and later completed her master\u2019s degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, where she studied with Clemens Gadenst\u00e4tter. She also studied jazz composition and arrangement with Ed Partyka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soyeon\u2019s work challenges musical conventions while maintaining technical precision and expressive clarity. Inspired by everyday life, her compositions often incorporate subtle humor and bring together acoustic and visual elements, including influences from film techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Music Promotion Prize of the City of Graz (2020), the Andrzej Dobrowolski Composition Grant (2022), and the \u00d61 Talenteb\u00f6rse Composition Prize (2022). She received the Staatsstipendium from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service, and Sport (BMK\u00d6S) in 2023 and 2026.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Akin Kilis<\/a>,<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Ak\u0131n Kilis (b. June 13, 1998, Adana\/T\u00fcrkiye) is a Turkish composer. He studied piano with G. Can \u00c7oker at \u00c7ukurova University, Adana, and with Birce Arslan at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul. His artistic path began in 2016 with composition studies at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, where he studied under Ali \u00d6zkan Manav, Ali Ahmet Alt\u0131nel, Mehmet Saim Nemutlu, Hasan U\u00e7arsu, and Erdem \u00c7\u00f6lo\u011flu, and completed both his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees. During his education, he gained international experience as an Erasmus student at Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater Hamburg with Gordon Kampe and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG) with Klaus Lang. A second master\u2019s degree led him to Clemens Gadenst\u00e4tter’s class at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His compositions have been performed by numerous renowned ensembles and orchestras, including Ensemble Multilaterale (France), Quatuor Diotima (France), Ensemble Oerknal (Netherlands), Appasionato Ensemble (Italy), Bilkent Symphony Orchestra (T\u00fcrkiye), Gilgamesh Ensemble (USA), Klaip\u0117da Chamber Orchestra (Lithuania), Klasik Keyifler Ensemble (T\u00fcrkiye), Diskant Ensemble (T\u00fcrkiye), Anadolu Wind Quintet (T\u00fcrkiye), Kalamos Quintet (Croatia); and
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His works has received awards, including 2nd Prize at the 9th Mersin International Music Festival Composition Competition (2017), 3rd Prize at the 11th Mersin International Music Festival Composition Competition (2019), Audience Prize and Honorable Mention at the S\u00fcleymanpa\u015fa Municipality Bisanthe G\u00fclsin Onay Piano Composition Competition (2019), Honorable Mention at the IV International Composition Competition 2020 \u201cAppasionato Ensemble\u201d (2022), 3rd Prize at the 2nd International Balsys Composition Competition 2021, 3rd Prize at the Gilgamesh Composition Competition (2022), 6th Prize at the 2nd International Contest of Choral Composition UAH 2022, 1st Prize at the 4th International Composition Competition New Music Generation, Jury Special Prize at the Aima 25th Anniversary Composition Award (2023), 3rd Prize at the International \u0130hsan Do\u011framac\u0131 Orchestral Composition Competition (2024), Honorable Mention at the Calefax Reed Quintet Composition Competition (2024), Audience Prize at Tage der Neuen Klaviermusik Graz (2025), and 1st Prize at the Scorefollower Competition 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His music has been presented at important festivals, including the 10th, 11th, and 13th Journey of Sound: Young Composers Festival (2017, 2018, 2021), The Second Everlasting Hope: Gustav Mahler & Terezin Composers Festival (2018), Bilkent Composition Academy (2017\u20132019), Istanbul Bilgi University Bilgi New Music Festival (2021), Barcelona Modern Academy, Impuls Composition Academy (2023), IYCA Ticino Academy (2024), and the 4th Annual Symposium on Enharmonic Interfaces and Controllers for Keyboard Instruments: Expanding the Potential of the Organ (2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lectures & Seminars: Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul State Conservatory, Composition Department, Composers’ Forum Seminars (10.03.2026): “Ak\u0131n Kilis – My Compositional Methods and Personas: Tools Derived from Musical Genres Within and Beyond the Context of New Music. “Barcelona Modern Academy Composition Festival 2023: Ak\u0131n Kilis as a Composer”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kilis\u2019s compositional approach combines two distinct personalities: a serious, structurally oriented side based on algorithmic patterns and large-scale formal processes, and a humorous, theatrical, and improvisatory side with a strong gestural character. He maintains multiple compositional personalities. In some of his works, the music itself shows an impatient desire to fulfill expectations through algorithms. In others, these expectations are deconstructed in unexpected and humorous ways through improvisatory elements. At times, he combines both approaches simultaneously, allowing them to merge into a hybrid musical language. His inspiration comes from a wide range of sources: alongside classical and contemporary music, elements of metal, rock, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, soul, lo-fi, and Turkish makams enter his work. His particular interest in hip-hop appears in his use of collage techniques, glitches, and loops, while influences from metal can be heard in the form of djent phrases, breakdowns, and complex rhythmic algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He extends his gratitude to his friends Emircan Pehlivan and Mithatcan \u00d6cal, as well as the Istanbul Composers Collective.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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